- Name
- Amstrad
- Abbreviation
- Founded
- 1 January 1968
- Location
- Brentwood, Essex,United Kingdom
- Website
- http://www.amstrad.com/
- Aliases
Amstrad
Brentwood, Essex,United Kingdom
Amstrad is a British electronics company that made a variety of personal computers during the 1980s, including the Amstrad CPC and the Amstrad PCW. Today, Amstrad is primarily a manufacturer of BSkyB satellite television boxes.
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A British consumer electronics company founded by Alan Sugar in 1968, Amstrad (from <u>A</u>lan <u>M</u>ichael <u>S</u>ugar <u>Trad</u>ing) chiefly produced cheap TV, hi-fi and car stereo systems. In 1984 they released the Amstrad CPC (Platform) computer series and gained a substantial share of the 8-bit home computer market in the UK. Later they produced the business-oriented Amstrad PCW range (primarily designed for word processing). In 1986 Amstrad bought the all rights to the Sinclair Research computer series, and later sold upgraded version of the popular ZX Spectrum (Platform).
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